Re: [PATCH] fuse: always revalidate rename target dentry

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 14:20, Jiachen Zhang
<zhangjiachen.jaycee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The previous commit df8629af2934 ("fuse: always revalidate if exclusive
> create") ensures that the dentries are revalidated on O_EXCL creates. This
> commit complements it by also performing revalidation for rename target
> dentries. Otherwise, a rename target file that only exists in kernel dentry
> cache but not in the filesystem may result in an EEXIST.

"...will result in EEXIST if RENAME_NOREPLACE flag is used."

Applied with the above change.

Thanks,
Miklos